Opinion Archives

July 7, 2013 7 min read

"Despite our sincerest yearnings we remain simple mortals with more mundane abilities. My power turned out to be queerness, an inherent difference that allowed me to question that which often goes unquestioned in society." Read More

Red-framed Glasses and a Gold Star: The Art of Writing Good Fiction

Danny Hoey

Features Opinion

June 30, 2013 5 min read

“…good writing—good fiction—begins with an idea. And this idea has to have a soul, a pulse, a heartbeat; it has...

Notes on Teaching Kate Bornstein

Marcie Bianco

Features Opinion

June 18, 2013 10 min read

Kate Bornstein’s memoir, A Queer and Pleasant Danger, hereafter QPD, featured as the capstone of my “American Literature” course last...

A.M. Homes Wins The Women’s Prize Amid Controversy

Victoria Brownworth

Features Opinion

June 13, 2013 7 min read

There’s been a great deal of snarkiness about this literary prize. “Why only women?” “Isn’t this sexism in reverse?” Read More

Obituary as History: The Lost Lives of the Queer Dead

Victoria Brownworth

Features Opinion

May 29, 2013 9 min read

The impact of obituaries for those relegated to the margins of mainstream society cannot be overstated... Read More

LGBT Media and the Question of Content

Marcie Bianco

Features Opinion

March 28, 2013 7 min read

“The media has replaced every institution”—Fran Lebowitz is always right, isn’t she? Yet even I think she could not foretell...

Divisions and Connections in Queerdom: A Conversation Between Rickey Laurentiis and Darrel Alejandro Holnes

Edit Team

Interviews Opinion

February 17, 2013 19 min read

In this in-depth discussion, poets Rickey Laurentiis and Darrel Alejandro Holnes examine categorization in the NYC social scene and in queer literature today. Read More

The Humanities and the Academy

Marcie Bianco

Features Opinion

January 29, 2013 6 min read

What is compromised when one receives a graduate training? What precisely do humanities students excel at? Abstract thinking, cerebral thought—not to mention a penchant for wildly obtuse language. None of these skills are easily translatable into careers outside academia. Read More